Poetry and Paintings

This is a new project from Anastasia Volkhovskaya and Pavel Sizov and an attempt to unite two genres (poetry and painting).

The first theme that has inspired the artists tells a story of 12 different women.

Ballerina

Pressed against a sacred window, bewildered, filled with mysteryI follow angles and curves flashing in linear light;my desperate ballerina –wringing her fingers and wrists –weeping movements and jumps on pitiless parquet.In her crucial danceshe reminds me of a bird –caught, admired, tortured…I wish I could break this sacred windowand take her awayfrom watering mirrors swallowing her youth…But I am only a tin soldier – brave yet hopeless –limping each day to look at my desperate ballerinaand love her as only the tin soldier can.